Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-01

Organized work in New England in
Behalf of Professionalism of Hr.
Radcliffe toThis CIty-The Executive
4. Committee of the Club to be Increas"
ed TO One Hundred-HOn. N. ID. Sper-
~ Will Probably be Added to the
Committee.
Mr.. Herbert Radcliffe of Boston, secretary
of the Home Market club, was in this city
last evening. The club is working to extend
its influence and increase its working power
in behalf of protection. Free trade has long
had its organization with various ramifca-
lions for laboring in behalf of its theories and
to disseminate its principles, creed and plat
form; and protection has virtually had none.
The Home Market club is to remedy this de-
to spread abroad the arguments for free trade
and disseminate reading matter to that end.
Before May LIST it will disseminate from 300,-
600 to 400, 900 documents in behalf of protec-
ton doctrines. Timothy Merrick of Holyoke,
Mass, is president of the club, and there are
81 vice presidents, all prominent men in
Massachusetts,, and an executive committee of
twenty one composed also of prominent
Massachusetts, men. It is proposed to en-
large this committee to one hundred names
in order to enlarge the activity and useful
ness of the organization. From New Haven
and vicinity Hon. N. D. Sperry and probably
General Harmon will be selected to repre-
sent this section. The headquarters of the
club is the Boston Merchants association,
40 Bedford street, Boston. The club was Or
ganized April % last largely by the personal
energy and earnest work of the late George
Draper of Hopedale, Mass, who died soon
after the organization was completed, leaving
tho 70 he io6 on nv
His son, George w. F. Draper, is promi-
nent officer of the club and zeal
GUS for the cause of preserving the
home market for home manufacturers, home
enterprise, home capital and home labor,
supporting it not only with his means, but
with earnest personal cooperation. Free
trade clubs have virtually had things their
own way, meeting with no organized resist
ance, and, as says the circular of the club,
"the result is that our colleges have been
turning out free traders, captiyated with the
Utopian fallacies of that policy. The situa-
ton for the cause of protection is most crltl-
cal, and organized work ia its behalf is
greatly demanded. Already we have free
trade administration and free trade secre-
tary of the treasury, and the New York Free
Trade club is influencing that department in
ills decisions The tariff has long been ad
ministered to disgust manufacturers and i'm
porters alike. Undervaluations in imported
merchandise have been practised at the Gus
tom houses with impunity, and agents of
fo1eign manufacturers in New York control
the importing business of the country through
a system of consigning goods, assisted by the
loose and inefficient consular and customs
systems By this system of differentiation,
sustained by fraud and the administration of
the Treasury department, manufacturers are
deprived of the protection which
the tariff was designed to give
them, and thus in one kind of
goods (woolens and worsteds) there was i'm
ported last year over SAL 100000 worth, as
course 20 or 30 per cent short of their actual
value. To have the protective tariff admins
tered by free trader who is most DESTROYS
for it's destruction needs no comment The
national House of Representatives is already
in the control of free traders and in the Sen
ate there is but bare majority against them,
which will undoubtedly soon be lost if the
protectionists do not organize for action. The
Home Market club is an organization to coun-
teract this danger and peril to our home in
terests. It will agitate for protection just as
the Golden club does for free trade. The
club is now collecting a guarantee
fund wherewith to meet the expenses of
the work. 1t has $4,000 raised out of $50,
900 required for the work. Prizes will be
offered for the best essays and orations on
protection; also prizes for essays written by
representatives of individual interests. All
the prizes will be confined to New England,
leaving the American Tariff league of the |
country to cover the field beyond that. The
club has already welded a powerful infu
ence in the late elections in Massachusetts. |
Its membership has rapidly increased from
100 to 400, and among the host of brilliant |
men among them there are 1
Senator Hoar, Governor Ames, Hon. Henry /
Cabot Lodge. Stillman Allen, Hon. A. w. |
Beard, Hon. W. W. Grape and General w. /
F. Draper Business men, real estate own
ers, insurance men, bankers and others are 1
eligible to membership. Admission to the |
club is only three dollars, with annual dues /
at one dollar.